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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  January   11,   1665.— Re- 
ferred to  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Milks. 


RESOLTJTIOlSrS. 

1  Resolved,  That,  under  the  Constitution,  Congress  alone  has 

2  the  power  lo  declare  war,  and  the   President,   by  and  with  the 

3  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  the  power  to  make  a  treaty 

4  of  peace. 

1  Resolved,  That  all  attempts  to  make  peace  with  the  United 

2  States,  by  the  action  or  intervention  of  the  separate  States  com- 

3  posing  this  Confederacy,  are  unauthorized  by  the  Constitution, 

4  in  contravention  of  the  supreme  law  of  the  land,  and  therefore 
t5  revolutionary. 

1  Resolved,  That  the    Confederate  States  are  prosecuting  the 

2  war  in  which  they  are  engaged  for  the  purpose  of  establishing 

3  their  independence  as  a  separate  power,  ar.d  that  in  so  doing 

4  they  are   exercising  the  natural  and   inalienable  right  claimed 

5  by  them  in  the  revolution  of  76,  which  established  their  inde- 
fi  pendence  of  the  British  crrwn. 

1  Resolved,  That  we,  the  Representatives  of  the  people  of  the 

2  Confederate   States,  are   firmly   determined   to   continue  th^ 
S     struggle  in  which  we  are  involved,  until  the  United  States  shall 

4  acknowledge  our  independence,  and  to  this  determination,  with 

5  a  sincere  conviction  of  the  justice  of  our  cause,  and  an  humble 

6  reliance  upon  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  Nations,  we  do  solemnly 

7  and  faithfully  pledge  ourselves. 


